By: Chris Perkins, writer and editor, GM News
This weekend, the thundering Cadillac V-Series.R enters its fourth year of competition with the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona, Florida. Cadillac Racing begins the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with optimism, having enjoyed a strong finish to the 2025 season, and with aerodynamic updates for the V-Series.R, its entrant in the top-level GTP class.
“What I’m most excited about going into this race is being able to showcase all our hard work over the last year,” says Keely Bosn, Cadillac Racing Program Manager. “All our driver feedback from the November Daytona test was very positive. I think we’re looking strong.”
Cadillac Racing’s entries and driver lineups for the IMSA SportsCar Championship are as follows:
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 10)
- Ricky Taylor
- Filipe Albuquerque
- Will Stevens (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 40)
- Jordan Taylor
- Louis Deletraz
- Colton Herta (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
Cadillac Whelen (No. 31)
- Jack Aitken
- Earl Bamber
- Frederik Vesti (endurance races, Long Beach)
- Connor Zilisch (Daytona)
The full-season driver lineups are unchanged from last year, while the team has new additions in Cadillac Formula 1® Team test driver Colton Herta joining the No. 10 for three rounds and NASCAR star Connor Zilisch making his GTP debut in the No. 31 at Daytona.
“Coming out of a breakout NASCAR season, Connor is already bringing so many strengths to the team, and Colton is no stranger to GTP and Wayne Taylor Racing, so he already knows the ropes,” Bosn says.
No. 31 drivers Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber will contest both the full IMSA and FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) seasons this year. “We can bring the knowledge and feedback from what Jack and Earl learn across both series and use it holistically across all our teams,” Bosn says.
Last year was one of the big changes for Cadillac Racing. It was the first year with Wayne Taylor Racing running the V-Series.R in IMSA, and the first year for Cadillac Hertz Team Jota in WEC. Throughout 2025, Cadillac Racing made a huge effort to get all the teams moving in the same direction for the benefit of the whole.
“Our teams are very intertwined now compared to where we started one year ago,” Bosn says. “We’ve done a lot to figure out our communication structure, and I think that's showing now.”
There are the performance gains that have come from the team collaboration, and gains from upgrades to the car itself. “When it comes to drivers, you want to make sure they’re confident in the car you’re providing them,” Bosn says. “I think we’ve done a good job of finding ways to make the car more stable and consistent with this new aero package.”
This year, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship calendar is largely as it was before, the only major changes being the Road America round becoming a six-hour endurance, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway round shortening a two-hour, forty-minute sprint.
“It's very business as usual, which is kind of the exciting part,” Bosn says. “It provides a great comparison to last year.”
“Business as usual” doesn’t mean easy, though. As ever, the 2026 IMSA SportsCar championship kicks off with a huge challenge in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The team will then want to apply the lessons learned there to rest of the season, starting with the punishing 12 Hours of Sebring, crisscrossing North America’s greatest road courses, and ending as always at Road Atlanta for the 10-hour Petit Le Mans.
It will be a year of great opportunity. “We’re coming into this season with as many of our ducks in a row as we can get,” Bosn says. “Now it’s really time to put the rubber to the road.”
This weekend, the thundering Cadillac V-Series.R enters its fourth year of competition with the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona, Florida. Cadillac Racing begins the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with optimism, having enjoyed a strong finish to the 2025 season, and with aerodynamic updates for the V-Series.R, its entrant in the top-level GTP class.
“What I’m most excited about going into this race is being able to showcase all our hard work over the last year,” says Keely Bosn, Cadillac Racing Program Manager. “All our driver feedback from the November Daytona test was very positive. I think we’re looking strong.”
Cadillac Racing’s entries and driver lineups for the IMSA SportsCar Championship are as follows:
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 10)
- Ricky Taylor
- Filipe Albuquerque
- Will Stevens (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 40)
- Jordan Taylor
- Louis Deletraz
- Colton Herta (Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta)
Cadillac Whelen (No. 31)
- Jack Aitken
- Earl Bamber
- Frederik Vesti (endurance races, Long Beach)
- Connor Zilisch (Daytona)
The full-season driver lineups are unchanged from last year, while the team has new additions in Cadillac Formula 1® Team test driver Colton Herta joining the No. 10 for three rounds and NASCAR star Connor Zilisch making his GTP debut in the No. 31 at Daytona.
“Coming out of a breakout NASCAR season, Connor is already bringing so many strengths to the team, and Colton is no stranger to GTP and Wayne Taylor Racing, so he already knows the ropes,” Bosn says.
No. 31 drivers Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber will contest both the full IMSA and FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) seasons this year. “We can bring the knowledge and feedback from what Jack and Earl learn across both series and use it holistically across all our teams,” Bosn says.
Last year was one of the big changes for Cadillac Racing. It was the first year with Wayne Taylor Racing running the V-Series.R in IMSA, and the first year for Cadillac Hertz Team Jota in WEC. Throughout 2025, Cadillac Racing made a huge effort to get all the teams moving in the same direction for the benefit of the whole.
“Our teams are very intertwined now compared to where we started one year ago,” Bosn says. “We’ve done a lot to figure out our communication structure, and I think that's showing now.”
There are the performance gains that have come from the team collaboration, and gains from upgrades to the car itself. “When it comes to drivers, you want to make sure they’re confident in the car you’re providing them,” Bosn says. “I think we’ve done a good job of finding ways to make the car more stable and consistent with this new aero package.”
This year, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship calendar is largely as it was before, the only major changes being the Road America round becoming a six-hour endurance, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway round shortening a two-hour, forty-minute sprint.
“It's very business as usual, which is kind of the exciting part,” Bosn says. “It provides a great comparison to last year.”
“Business as usual” doesn’t mean easy, though. As ever, the 2026 IMSA SportsCar championship kicks off with a huge challenge in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The team will then want to apply the lessons learned there to rest of the season, starting with the punishing 12 Hours of Sebring, crisscrossing North America’s greatest road courses, and ending as always at Road Atlanta for the 10-hour Petit Le Mans.
It will be a year of great opportunity. “We’re coming into this season with as many of our ducks in a row as we can get,” Bosn says. “Now it’s really time to put the rubber to the road.”